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Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, and the Science of Being Human - 9780313350061

Un libro in lingua di Locke Simeon M.D. edito da Greenwood Pub Group, 2007

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It is a question that may seem, at once, simple yet profoundly complicated: What is consciousness? And from where in the body, or mind, does it arise? In his work, esteemed Harvard scholar Simeon Locke, M.D. brings us the debate over substance and source in consciousness, and offers what he sees as the resolution to this debate, with accessible text explaining the neurologist's thinking on how to define, measure and explain consciousness, from a variety of field's perspectives. "Efforts to understand consciousness - perhaps the supreme manifestation of self-consciousness - continue. Books are written. Predictions are made. Physicists, psychologists, biologists, and philosophers participate. The brain is studied, but an understanding of consciousness eludes us," explains Locke. "Still, the quest continues. We are not looking in the wrong place, for surely consciousness is a function of the nervous system. But we may be looking for the wrong thing," Locke adds. "Quest implies we are looking for something, and consciousness is not a something. It is a process, or so-called distributed function of the brain." In this work, Locke explains how the nervous system plays a primary role in consciousness.

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